First of back-to-back atmospheric rivers drenches Northern California while moving south
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heavy rain flooded California roadways and piled up in the mountains as the first of back-to-back pummeled the state Thursday.
The storm focused its energy on the southern and eastern parts of the state after initially on Wednesday, where it halted cable car service. The downpours arrived Thursday in Southern California in time to snarl the morning commute.
An atmospheric river, which is a long band of moisture that forms over the Pacific, was fueling the storms dousing the Los Angeles and San Diego
Strike by security staff at most major German airports cancels hundreds of flights
BERLIN (AP) — Security workers at most of Germany’s major airports walked off the job Thursday in a one-day strike to step up pressure in a pay dispute, prompting widespread flight cancellations.
The ver.di union, which announced the walkout on Tuesday afternoon, called on workers to strike at 11 airports: Frankfurt, Berlin, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Hannover, Dresden, Bremen and Erfurt.
Airports in Bavaria — including Munich, the country’s second-busiest
South Korean court convicts 23-year-old man in car-and-stabbing attack that killed 2 and injured 12
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean judge convicted a man of murder Thursday for an unprovoked that killed two people and injured 12 others in a city near Seoul last year.
Prosecutors had sought a death penalty for 23-year-old Choi Won-jong, who was arrested in August after he rammed his car into pedestrians in a bustling leisure district in Seongnam and then stepped out of the crashed vehicle and stabbed people at random at a nearby shopping mall. Two of the five people who
Horns blaring and engines roaring, 100s of tractors bring farmers’ plight to an EU summit
BRUSSELS (AP) — Farmers in convoys of tractors created chaos outside the European Union’s headquarters on Thursday, pelting police with firecrackers, eggs and beer bottles as they demanded leaders at an EU summit provide relief from .
With thick smoke from burning bales of hay hanging over parts of the Belgian capital, security forces used water cannons to douse fires and keep a farmer from felling a tree on the steps of the European Parliament. They could not prevent one bronze statue being pulled off its pedestal and scorched.
Thursday’
Tokyo’s fish market opens long-awaited seafood restaurants and spa to attract more visitors
TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s fish market on Thursday opened a long-awaited outer section with Japanese-style seafood restaurants and a spa for relaxation, as the wholesale venue that has struggled since relocating from the beloved Tsukiji market seeks to lure more visitors.
Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai includes a food court resembling an Edo samurai-era street, lined with about 65 restaurants serving mostly fresh catch from the market next door. Together with visitors at the spa and hotel in another area, the Tokyo metropolitan government that operates
The bodies of 9 Pakistanis killed by unknown gunmen in Iran have been repatriated
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces killed 22 insurgents this week in an operation against Baloch separatists, who had launched attacks with suicide bombers and gunmen in retaliation for on insurgent hideouts in Iran in January, officials said Thursday.
Four security forces and two civilians died when insurgents launched rocket attacks before dawn on Monday on security facilities in Mach, a district in Baluchistan province. The outlawed Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks, which continued until Tuesday night.
Jan Achakzai, a
Takeaways from AP report on the DEA’s secret spying program in Venezuela
MIAMI (AP) — It was a plan the United States knew from the start would arguably violate international law.
The Associated Press obtained a secret 2018 memo detailing a covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to surreptitiously record and build drug-trafficking cases against the country’s leadership.
The sting was part of a yearslong investigation that targeted dozens of people, including Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
“We don’t like to say it publicly
Secret US spying program targeted top Venezuelan officials, flouting international law
6 killings in likely cannabis dispute spotlight violence and risk in California’s illegal pot market
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The slayings of six men last week at a remote desert crossroads that authorities believe stemmed from a soured illegal cannabis deal spotlighted a longstanding problem in California: a thriving underground marijuana market despite years of legal sales that were expected to stamp it out.
The killings provided a tragic reminder of the violence that can come with illicit cannabis activity, including unlicensed growing operations, brash robberies from legal businesses and furtive illegal shipments to out-of-state vendors.
“The violence is getting worse. The
Few are held responsible for wrongful convictions. Can a Philadelphia police perjury case stick?
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Of the nearly 3,500 people exonerated of serious crimes in the U.S. since 1989, more than half had their cases marred by alleged misconduct by police or prosecutors, according to a .
But experts say it’s rare for anyone to be held accountable for the harm — for the coerced confessions, hidden evidence, false testimony and other dubious work that contributes to flawed convictions.
The pending perjury trial of three retired Philadelphia police detectives could prove an exception